Yeah, you definately wont be able to find a board without that nowadays. In fact most of them are moving to ATX12V 2.0 which adds 4 pins to the big connector as well. I think they do make adapters ...

This prototype PCB featured not one, not two, but 4 x 16-pin power connectors and a 45-phase power delivery which is bonkers. Each of the 16-pin power connectors can use up to 600W of power, ...

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It's been a while since we needed a new graphics card power connector. Both AMD and Nvidia have typically made do with pairs of 6-pin and 8-pin connectors in various configurations.

NVIDIA and many others investigated the melting plugs, and the conclusion was that it was too easy to mess up plugging in the 12+4-pin power connector, leading to poor fitment and bad connections.

Custom models of the Radeon RX 9070 XT, one of the first graphics cards to leverage AMD's all-new RDNA 4 architecture, may not feature 12VHPWR, the 16-pin power connector that some NVIDIA users ...

Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W . Solomon Thompson Send an email May 26, 2025 Last Updated: May 26, 2025. 0 908 .

Intel itself doesn’t have any graphics cards that use this connector yet — it really doesn’t need a 12+4-pin connector that can supply up to 600 watts of power to the graphics card.

When PCI-SIG introduced the 12VHPWR power connector as a replacement for the 6- and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, it created a wave of controversy. There were enough cases of melting GPUs, PSUs, and… ...